this is the first map in which the name america appears. flower experts from around the world have transformed a park in moscow into a garden paradise. we don't have a picture of it, but it was russia's first ever international flower show and thousands of people are expected to attend. we will get that picture for you. and no fireworks needed, because this is the sunrise at copa cabana beach in brazil. copa cabana beach in brazil. quite nice. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm suzanne malveaux, and welcome the newsroom, and we will go the ohio where the president is starting his bus tour. and we will talk about the power outages all over the united states, and why so many americans are working overtime. straight to it. a judge in florida set bond for

george zimmerman at $1 million. you might remember he is the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the death of trayvon martin. zimmerman's earlier bond of $150,000 was revoked after prosecutor told the judge that he misled the court about how much money he had. it is not clear how soon zimmerman is going to post bond or when he will be released. a florida lifeguard has been fired after saving a man from drowning. yes, that is right. thomas lopez says he was let go from his job in hillendale eare beach when he rescued a guy outside of his area of the beach. >> i am going the do what is right and i did. >> he says that several other lifeguards have quit to protest the firing and my colleague erin burnett is going to talk live to lopez tonight live on cnn's

"erin burnett outfront" at 7:00 p.m. president obama kicked off this bus tour in a politically critical state of ohio. the road to the white house has run through ohio and the president has made several stops on what he is calling their betting on america tour. right now, he is in the town of m maumee which is not far from toledo, and dan lothian is reporting on all of the stops, and you are on the phone, dan, and chugging along. what have you seen so far? >> that is right. we just hopped on tb bhe bus he in maumee, and the president is doing affiliate interviews, and he often does that with local affiliates, and we are headed to sandusky with the president will wrap up remarks at a ice cream social, and the message here that the president has is all about the economy focusing on essentially defending what he has been doing t ing thing over

three years and the bailout, and the bailout of the auto industry, a nd this is a region that has been hit hard in manufacturing sector, gm, and chrysler employed a lot of people in this region and a lot of the jobs, tens of thousands of jobs in this region were lost and the president is spelling out what he has done the bring some of of the jobs back here in america and what he is going to continue to do to bring these folks back to work, suzanne. >> and dan, obviously, everything that he says the messaging is critical at this time, and they are running out of time before the voters go to the polls. he is attacking mitt romney directly here? >> yes, he did, but i expected more from the president today, but today, two occasions and perhaps three, that i will point out that the president went after mitt romney on the auto bailout and talking about what the administration had done, and this is obviously something they were criticized for investing so

much money in the private sector, and the president drawing a contrast between what he did and what mitt romney would have done. take a listen. >> when the american auto industry was on the brink of collapse, and more than 1 million jobs were on the line, governor romney said, we should just let detroit go bankrupt. i refused to turn my back on communities like this one. i was betting on the american worker, and i was betting on american industry, and three years later the american auto industry has come roaring back. >> reporter: and the president went after romney for working with a private equity firm as the president pointed out was a pioneer of the outsourcing and the president telling the crowd he is working to insource the jobs and the companies that have sent the jobs overseas to provide tax breaks for the companies to bring them back home, suzanne. >> and dan, we have noted a couple of things from the

president who is out there sweating and speaking with the folks and speaking in a casual way as he is known to do in large crowds, and how is he being received there in ohio? >> well, certainly here in this crowd, it was friendly territory and so he was received quite well, but what you are seeing here is a change of the face of the campaign and mostly the president has done big name and big city sessions and some rallies as well, but it is the hollywood set or the new york set of fund-raising and this is more of the retail politics and the president getting out to the rust belt and meeting the folks up close and personal and specifically those blue collar workers that both of the campaign ris trog -- campaigns are trying to get to. >> thank you, dan. i know it is awfully hot out there. take care. and the republican governor

of louisiana and the former governor of minnesota are tracing the president's route and we will have more on their so-called middle-class promise gap tour. and the other story, the $1 million bond set for george zimmerman. david mattingly has been following the story of all things trayvon martin and related to george zimmerman, and this is a large amount of money that was being offered before the $1 million bond was issued. why so large? >> well, it is not how big the bond is, but it is the damage done to his credibility and to his freedom. in the room, the definition was that the defendant tried to flaunt the system when he tried to say that he didn't have the funds to meet the $1 million bond that the prosecution was originally asking for in this case. the judge also said that the defendant offered no

justification for his deception. he uses these words very strong words and again saying that he tried to manipulate the system. and so now, when he gets out not only does he have to come up with 10% nonrefundable of that $1 million bond, he has harsh restriction restrictions placed on him. before george zimmerman could go anywhere to be in hiding, but now we are finding that he cannot leave the county. the judge says that you cannot leave this county, and there are all sorts of other restrictions placed on him. he cannot engage in criminal activity. he cannot have contact with the victim's family, and he will have electronic monitoring and he has to report on pretrial releases every 48 hours socht it is tight now, and tight on the freedom and something that the judge said here really jumped out at us, and he said that the defendant was preparing to flee to avoid prosecution, but plans were thwarted. >> so he actually believes he

was a flight risk. >> that is what the judge is saying here, and those are his exact words and he does not offer any details about why he thought that, but now we are finding that the judge did believe that george zimmerman was a flight risk and now with a $1 million bond, a bondsman is going to have some incentive to go after him if he skips bond. >> and do you believe there is a chance that 10% will make the bond? >> he has 10% nonrefundable, and we know he has got it, because the defense fund is up to $200,000 and $100,000, he will get o get out of jail. >> all right. appreciate the update, david. here is what we are working on. two michigan auto workers who have a different opinion about the president. >> i credit president obama totall totally. >> the president wants to take us deeper and deeper into the social democratic mess that the europeans are going through

right now. >> reporter: . from stockton, california, to other cities around america are going brumt. i will look at a how that impacts the people in those towns, and why the american workers are putting in the equivalent of 45 days of overtime a year. meineke's personal pricing on brakes.

i tell mike what i can spend. i do my best to make that work. we're driving safely. and sue saved money on brakes. now that's personal pricing. now the aftermath of a freak storm that knocked out power to millions. six days after the storm hit more than 483,000 homes across 11 states are still without electricity. one quarter of them in west

virginia where the food and the wa ter shortages are widespread in a state where a lot of folks are already struggling. the median household income in west virginia is just over $38,000 and that compares to the almost $52,000 for the rest of the country. and 17.4% persons are below the povrly level compared to 13.8% for the national average. we have more on the relief effort. >> reporter: john roberts is in a hurry, because he needs to get a truckload of food and water to a shelter soon. roberts runs a faith-based charity called mountain mission. we follow the team as they pull into the community center which is a temporary shelter for citizens who have been without power and food for days, and many of them are thrilled with his arrival. and people like wilma wilcox who is legally blind says that her

family has been struggling to find food since a tree fell on the house and killed the power in her house. >> we have gone to churches and tried to get food, and it has been hard indeed, because we have to go place to place and it is hot. >> reporter: and this person tells a more desperate story. how long did you go without food and water? >> four days. very hard. very hot. we felt like you are going to pass out and got trembling and shaking. >> reporter: the state tells us that nearly every charity is dealing with food shortages as they have had to toss out perishable foods. >> we have dealt with a lot of floods and loss of power, but this snuck up on us. >> reporter: and now state officials are working furiously to head off a worse scenario.

this group has distributed 4,000 pounds of nonperishable food to the residents in here, and as far as the residential response goes, a fema official tell us, this is not another katrina. they say they have learned how to coordinate with the state officials from day one and bringing in 100,000 meals to west virginia and bringing in tractor-trailers full of water, and extra generators and many of it has arrived with little time to spare. >> we thank god that it is a place to come to get food. >> reporter: one of the wiggest challenges here is communication, so many areas of west virginia live in remote areas, and it is difficult for the state officials to get word to them on where to go to get help. brian todd, cnn, charleston, west virginia. john roberts who is the head of the group featured in the report of the mountain mission, and we understand that one of the big problems is

communicating with the remote areas, and you are trying to deliver to food to the places. how is that going? >> well, it is actually really going pretty well right now compared to what it was right out of the box. right after the storm, we did not see the storm coming. meteorologists did not pick up on it, and it gave us no warning. so it caught us, you know, sleeping a little bit. but i will tell you that the federal officials and the government officials here, and the state officials have all responded just great. very positively. american electric power has done good. we have gotten most of the state back on line with electric, so communications has increased. it is really getting much better. >> sounds like better than we thought. i know that the american red cross is providing up to 25,000 meals a day in the state and the federal government has sent a good bit as well, about 100,000 meal meals or so, and are they getting what they need here?

>> well, it is coming. yes, there are still some rural areas that they are working on, and it's really difficult. like i said yesterday in brian's piece, the west virginia is a beautiful state, and very mountainous, and therefore when we have high winds and the trees will take out some of the power lines, it will take a little bit of time to get to back roads and things like that, but all of the emergency officials and everything are doing everything in their power to make sure that people have the medication they need, that they have the water, the food, and all of the resources they need to survive and it is really, it is tough. a lot of the grocery stores, the shelves were somewhat bare, especially of the perishable items like the dairy products and the meat and things like that, and we are really coming together and making a difference here. >> and john, i wanted to ask you

about that, because the grocery stores had to dump so much spoiled food across the state, and how do they restock? are they able to get the food back into the stores? >> we have talked to a couple of local grocers, and yes, the food supplies are coming in. they are actually going awe of the shelf as fast as they come in, but that is okay, because we know it is going into the hands of the people that needs it. so outside, surrounding states have helped us, and the national guard has, the governor has had the national guard involved, and they have done a terrific job to help us raise a lot of money and food and water over the last couple of days. it has really -- i can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and in another two or three days i will see a positive move here and big impact. >> thank you. you are the third john roberts i know, and thank you. i am glad it is going well. >> thank you so much and thank you for having me. >> sure. the popular toy legos built

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both president obama and republican opponent mitt romney have been visiting places that are hard hit. and poppy harlow has been to the

rust belt, and she has met people who have sharp differences of the candidate who should represent them. >> reporter: on the out outsk t outskirts of detroit -- >> i don't see the economy coming back. >> and he has our back. >> reporter: and there are people who have differing views of the economy, and the unemployment is 8.5%. who do you credit for te connie? >> president obama, because when everybody turned their backs on the auto industry, he said no way to let us fail. >> reporter: mitt romney's criticism of the auto bailout does not sell well here in the home of the big three, and michigan is leaning towards obama in this election, but not all of the auto workers we met here are. >> i think that mitt romney will do a much better job managing the economy. the government needs to be out of the economy as much as possibl possible. >> reporter: you see even though brian is an auto worker, he does not think that president obama

should have bailed out the indust industry. >> i think that markets need to be allowed the work, and theher fundamental problems that gm and chrysler had that were really of their own making. >> reporter: he works for ford which didn't take a bailout. >> life is a whole lot different today. >> reporter: but stacy's company did. she was laid off as an electrician in 2008 and out of work for a year. >> they started to do the restructuring after the grants and i went to work one month later and i have been working since. >> reporter: that has helped her to send her daughter to college and buy a new house. >> i believe without obama's bailout, we would not be here today. >> reporter: and brian is doing well, too, but he does not credit obama's spending. >> obama wants to take us deeper and deeper into the democratic social mess that the europeans are going through right now. >> reporter: he is working

part-time for a republican state representative. >> we need fiscal responsibility, and that is mitt romney. >> reporter: why should we keep bailing out the industry? that is the feeling of the people on the road that i have talked to have? >> the big three supports the entire state of michigan and the auto lines did not help chrysler and gm, but the small suppliers and the people in the area and the citizens. >> reporter: despite the bailout, michigan has actually lost 50,000 manufacturing jobs since 2007. >> some even said that we should let detroit go bankrupt. you remember that. >> i believe that the market works better than a president stepping in to take care of his friends. >> reporter: mitt romney's 2008 op-ed let detroit go bankrupt is notorious here. >> hey, hey, mitt romney has got to go. >> reporter: president obama took 53% of the vote here in ma kocomb county, and the supporte

know the uphill battle here for mitt romney. what do you believe is mitt romney's biggest challenge here in michigan? >> when chrysler and gm were grabbing for a lifeline, it came off that he did not care about the auto industry, and he cared about the auto business of a financial guy and bean counter rather than somebody's heart really there. >> reporter: a candid reflick shun of an auto worker who knows the detail of the production line and politics. >> poppy, a fascinating look there of the two sides of the topic here. are the folks in michigan still focusing on the romney op-ed let detroit go bankrupt from four years ago? is that still resonating? >> yes, i i shgs , it is and mo expected. of course, those who have seen it work for them and their jobs bring it up and say that romney was wrong and even the man on the piece, brian, he said that

he treated the issue like a businessman and well, mitt romney is a businessman and he wanted a traditional bankruptcy financed by the public sector and not using tax dollars. that is key. but what is also key is that it is indisputable that the auto bailout did bring down unemployment. you had michigan with 13% unemployment in 2010 and 8.5% unemployment in the area right now. michigan is the state that has seen the biggest decline in unemployment, suzanne n the last two years. it is michigan and then ohio where the president is today. that is going to be key. that is why, clearly romney is going to have a tough time in detroit especially, but it was fascinating to find auto workers that i found more than that one, because a steel worker at a bar said that his job is tied to the auto industry, but he is supporting romney. >> fascinating support there, poppy.

appreciate it. of course, tomorrow is a big day for the people in the city of stockton, california, because members of the city council will be in court after filing for bankruptcy. the city is in debt, and they want protection from the creditors and here is the important part, it is the biggest city in american history to file for bankruptcy. i want to talk about this with claude anderson. and thank you for being here. >> yes. >> and i want the viewers to look at the cities e who have filed for bankruptcy, and they are all over the country, and we are talking about new england and now the latest in stockton, california. tell us what happened in stockton? >> well s ate co, it is a combi many things and i hate to call it a perfect storm, but you had the economy problems and the housing market went bust, and so stockton was going be the place

that was the suburb of san francisco and people were going to go to it and boom. so they spent a lot of money on the new entertainment venues and built a new city hall and used the investments to buy bonds to pay them off. >> what does that mean going bankrupt for the people there? >> they have cut the pensions and the fire departments and the city workers have lost jobs. so what happens when you have cut pensions, those who were promised pensions are without that, so you have people without health care and pensions. and now you have crime on the rise, because you have cut the police and the fire, so it is a situation where the people are worried about the protection, and are we going to be safe here in the city, and then the housing situation there. >> if you were in a city, and you expected that your city, your town is not doing well and potential bankrupt, and would there be anything to protect yourself? >> well, be prepared and read the information. we cannot let people get elected

and then let them do what they do, but you have to be on tap of what they do. the people without health insurance have to find new benefit benefits and find out what is going on forward and see what types of services are going to be cut at this point, but there is not a lot as a citizen. >> is there any upside for the bankruptcy? >> well, a lot of upside, and lot of to pension accounts they got to and to get the people to come to the city and say they have pensions for life and a lot of the health benefits, they are getting on with the debts they have and unsecured debts, and help them to rebuild abrestructure and can they come back? yes. how is that going to affect the citizens that are already there, and the people who cannot sell the homes or the big foreclosure, and the foreclosure capital stockton has been labeled, because it was going to roll the housing market and now there are so many foreclosures, and now the mix of the economy

and it can happen in other cities. detroit is already wondering how the avoid bankruptcy. you can see it in other cities, and it is a matter of time and we have to make sure that the people in the place are managing the funds correctly. >> all right. keep an eye on them. thank you, clyde. good to see you. so are you working too hard? no, i mean, working too hard, long days and hours and the american workers are putting in and a record amount of overtime these days and we will tell you why. don't forget that you can watch cnn on your computer. go to cnn.com/tv. s. good eye.

sfa. can you put down the technology and the blackberrys? well, a new survey says that americans put in 45 hours overtime a weeks anding e-mails and phones. do you do that, alison kosik? >> well, it is not only about being addicted to the devices, but it is feeling more and more pressure of being available to the bosses. so it is a reflection of the times and companies have reduced the head count and squeezing more work out the people they do have, so a new survey from a web security firm called good technology and found out that a good majority of people, about 80% of us continue to work even though we have left the office. survey finds that we are putting in an extra 45 days a year, and guess what, we are not getting paid for it. most want to stay organize and feel they don't have a choice

because the customers are demanding quick responses and some, yes, some are addicted and they find it hard to switch that off button and here is the thing, suzanne. listen to this. this is so common that a lot of people say it is a complete nonissue with their significant others. so they don't care. keep on working. keep on working. >> everybody is so used to it by now, and how much money are we talking about here and what are we missing out on? >> well, not every job offers overtime. so say you make $50,000 a year, that works out to about $13,000 of overtime that you don't see, so that is not changing a lot of people's habits though, because 70% say they cannot go to sleep without checking their e-mail from work first, and almost as many people say they are checking it when they are out with family and one-third of them say they routinely check it at the dinner table which is re really sad. guys, can't put it down when you are eating. that is sad.

>> and you have to come up with rules here at home when you have to put the blackberry down. tell us a little bit about the jobs reports out today and what they say about the labor market. i understand good information. >> yes, a couple of the reports came out today, suzanne, show ing that the job market may be perking up, weekly jobless rates fell by 14,000 last week which is the biggest drop since april and the payroll processor adp said that 176,000 jobs were created. and it is not translating though on the dow. it is down about 16 points and that is the equivalent of our fed is saying that the euro is shadowing the entire area, and not only countries who have not experienced it before, so that is putting the downward pressure on the markets today. suzanne. >> thank you, alison. fourth of july, right, and the partiers ready for oohs and ahs

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president obama not the only show in town. we brought you details earlier about the president's stop in maumee, ohio, and that is where he kicked off the two-day bus tour dubbed betting on america. and mitt romney has republicans shadowing the bus route. tim paw llenty and bobby jindal are on the tour for what they call the promise gap tour. and paul steinhauser is joining us from washington, d.c. and the last go around it was not surprising that people would show up at the same place relative relatively within a day or two of each other, but now you have the kind of people running into each other, and how is it different now? >> well, you are seeing it now and it is called bracketing or

shad dough and you name the term, but the campaign is going after the other campaign's candidate and we saw it this morning as tim pawlenty and bobby jindal in maumee, ohio, a few hours before the president and they will follow him to pennsylvania. they are saying, listen, president obama in the 3 1/2 years in office has not been good to the middle-class. they are saying that the president's policies have been detrimental to the middle class and listen to both men. >> he is dubbing his tour "the betting on america tour." well, of course, we should all bet on america. but we shouldn't double-down on barack obama. his presidency has been a losing hand for ohio and for america. >> this president cannot run on his record, so he will do everything that he can to distract our attention and attack mitt romney and talk about what he did in high school, and talk about what he did in massachusetts and what he did in the private sector and trying to distract us. >> you know what is interesting about this tour though is that pawlenty and jindal are both two

gentlemen that mitt romney may seriously consider as running mates, and that is why this tour is a little more high profile than some of the other bracketing tours. look at the polls in the states. of course, in ohio, one of the granddaddies of the battleground statds and this is the latest from quinnipiac, and you can see the likely voters. and then to pennsylvania. you will see 20 electoral votes there. y you will see both camps in both of these states. >> why do they believe that this bus tour is effective? >> well, maybe helps with local attention, and local media and not much national attention, but when it comes to the bracket tours, the other campaign gets the message out to local voters in the states, suzanne. >> all right. thank you, paul. good to see you. he is fiery and

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to squeeze alee gent,legiant, a know who wins? we do. we get such cheap fares from the east coast to the west coast and typically on sale, $250 round trip or $280 and add that to the fair coast to hawaii and ultimately, it will pressure the fares further and further to the east what is going on and plus hawaiian airlines is now flying to new york nonstop to honolulu and another discounter, so we have lots of great stuff going on if you want to get to hawaii. >> all right. i might have to do that. now i don't know if people realize this, but we did our own traveling yesterday. we did a 10k, the peach tree road race. >> and we used no gasoline to get down the street. >> we are looking at the pictures here and this is team cnn. >> but you look so much more fit than i do in the shots.

>> what is your time? >> under 3 1/2 hours. >> what! >> no, just kidding. i ran the first three and walked most of the rest so it took 80 minutes and you did it in 55, right? >> little bit more than an hour and i admit that i stopped and was taking pictures and tweeting along the way. >> and the t-shirt is great and worth doing the race get the t-shirt. >> and did you get the peaches at the end? they were giving them out at the end. >> and you see, i'm the last person to start the race and that is my tradition and i cannot win the race, but by the time i start, all of the gimmes are gone and i don't get anything free. i got a couple of free bananas. >> i will give you a couple of peaches i picked up along the way. our colleagues did not show up today, and we are the only two who did the 10k. >> okay. let's do it again today.

>> they are telling me to go. we will go for another run another time. thank you, clark. you can catch clark every night on evening express from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. eastern on hln. when the colorado fires started, one of the residents was in the horn country. well, he saw his house in flames on his smartphone. how he raced across the globe to get to his wife and kids. ♪ rocky, rocky mountain high ♪ ♪ all my exes live in texas ♪ ♪ born on the bayou [ female announcer ] the perfect song for everywhere can be downloaded almost anywhere. ♪ i'm back, back in the new york groove ♪ [ male announcer ] the nation's largest 4g network. covering 2,000 more 4g cities and towns than verizon. rethink possible. diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me!

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the waldo canyon wildfire, 90% contained now, but fires are still burning in several other western states, including montana, wyoming, and utah. in colorado springs, among those who lost their homes with was a u.s. army captain on deployment in africa. jim spellman reports. >> reporter: when the fire roared into colorado springs, u.s. army captain emanuel eghana was four months into a deployment in the horn of africa. wife melissa was home taking care of the three kids. >> it was my son's tenth birthday that day, actually, and we'd picked up his cake. our home, the kitchen windows look up to the foot -- you know, the foothills and when i saw that fire come over the ridge is when i really knew that it was possibly very serious and i just said, we have to get out of here. >> reporter: the winds picked up up and the fire raced down the hill behind their home. she scrambled into the car with the kids and made their sway to safety at a friend's house. the bad news came later that evening when she saw this photo from the denver post. their home, front and center,

engulfed in flame. meanwhile, in africa, her husband was following the news from back home on his smartphone when the picture showed up. >> so i texted to him and i just said, you know, here's our home. >> reporter: what did you think when you saw a picture of your house engulfed in flames? >> i think in a way, i was satisfied that i really knew that there was no question my house was actually burning. >> reporter: he immediately showed the picture to his superiors. >> the first thing they said is is, you need to go home. >> reporter: captain eghana was on the next plane home, but he decided to keep his return a secret from his wife and kids. less than 24 hours after receiving the photo, he was back in colorado. >> there was a ring at the doorbell. >> my daughter, grace, i believe, opened the door first. >> and there he was. and i mean, the kids were there and we were all just sort of in disbelief. i mean, just, oh, my gosh. >> reporter: they were together again. when he walked in that door, what was it like? >> oh, just elation and just the

feeling of, okay, we can get through this together. so it was great. >> i was completely ecstatic. i just wanted to hold them all together and it was just something that i just had to be with my wife and my kids. >> reporter: they're spending the fourth of july in a hotel as they figure out what's next. >> after almost 15 years of being together, i think we've weathered a lot of storms together and we just know how to get through things together. >> and knowing that we will. we will get through this. it's just a matter of time and patience. lots of patience. >> it's just a new beginning for us. >> jim spellman, cnn, colorado springs. scientists have come one step closer to unlocking some of the universe's deepest secrets.

our understanding of the universe is about to change. scientists have come one step closer to unlocking some of the universe's deepest secrets. >> as layman, i would now say i think we have it. you agree? >> yeah. >> until this week, the so-called god particle, the key to our understanding of the universe, existed only in theory. but not anymore. collecting data like this, scientists have announced the discovery with 99.999% certainty that the higgs boson does exist,

the so-called god particle. professor peter higgs, now 83 years old, who first theorized its existence in 1964 was in the audience for this historic moment. >> for me, it's really an incredible thing that has happened in my lifetime. >> reporter: so what is the god particle, and just what does it do? well, in once sense, it is the missing link to this massive equation. this is the standard model for particle physics, and this is our understanding of how the universe works. the higgs boson gives us mass, which is how we measure matter, the stuff we are made of. scientists say without mass, stars, galaxies, and planets would not have been able to spin themselves into existence after the big bang. so how did scientists find it? well, with a massive particle collider. 27 kilometers of tunnels under

switzerland and france. researchers smashed particle beams together to see what's inside. effectively recreating the big bang trillions of times, over and over. and this is what they saw. subatomic debris, including the decayed remains of what they say appears to be the higgs boson, thereby proving its existence. but the mysteries of the universe are not solved yet. consider this. all those galaxies, planets, and stars -- everything we can see, well, they make up only 4% of the universe. there's still a lot more to discover. finding the higgs boson, the god particle, just opens another door. "cnn newsroom" continues right now. >> thank you, suzanne malveaux. i'm ashleigh banfield in for brooke baldwin this afternoon. and we have a lot happening, so let's get right to it, shall we?

we are just four months and one day until the election and it is hard to believe it, but things are really starting to sneak up on us. so today we have the president setting out for two industrial states that get a lot of attention every four years. here he is, about to board air force one. he's got the blazer on, the blue shirt and gray slacks. that's early in the day. presto-changeo. an hour later or so, and from president obama is in shirt sleeves in ohio. he's talking about working folks and the american auto industry. >> when the american auto industry was on the brink of collapse, and more than 1 million jobs were on the line, governor romney said we should just let detroit go bankrupt. i refused to turn my back on communities like this one. i was betting on the american worker. and i was betting on american

indust industry, and three years later, the american auto industry is coming roaring back. >> so now the president just hopped a bus and he is traveling at this hour through northern ohio and he's headed towards pennsylvania. so is dan lothian. he's trailing along and joins us on the telephone, literally en route. give us a bit of a locator as to where you are, dan, and let me know why it is no secret that you are on the tour, headed through those two particular states. >> reporter: that's right. well, we are somewhere in between mommee, where the president just held his event, a few hundred people, an outdoor venue with a white picket event and a large american flag. and the president is really talking about the economy and how this area that has been impacted by the manufacturing downturn, especially the auto industry, is starting to see some recovery. and the president taking credit for that, saying he pushed for the auto bailout. that this is something that his

administration obviously did. it's something that the romney administration would not have done. we're now on this bus. the president is on a separate bus, obviously, and he peeled off a short time ago to make an unscheduled stop. we don't have any details yet where that is. but as soon as we do, we'll pass that along. we're now on our way to sandusky, where the president will be holding another outdoor rally at a -- they're calling it an ice cream social. so we're headed that way. and then we'll whrap up the day in parma, ohio, where again the message from the president will be all about the economy. it will be about job creation, pointing out that his opponent, mitt romney, worked for a company that really pioneered outsourcing, and what he focuses on is in-sourcing jobs. bringing some of those jobs that went overseas back here at home. the president continue promising to fight for jobs. >> reporter: so dan lothian, the president's campaign knows full well that he's going to be

tailed by reporters, like you. he may not have been as aware of the other people tailing him, the republicans. namely, two very significant republicans, and a brand-new term has come into our lexicon, brack bracketing. explain. >> reporter: that's right. you have former presidential candidate tim pawlenty and also the governor of louisiana, bobby jindal, who are here as surrogates for mitt romney on their own sort of shadow bus tour as well. and what they're doing is essentially knocking down what the president is trying to play up. saying that americans are no better now than they were four years ago. really poking holes in the president's message. and in addition to that, it was interesting, when we landed here in ohio earlier today and got to the venue, there was a small plane circling the venue, pulling a large banner that said "romney 2012." so this may be president obama's bus tour, but romney very much a part of it.

>> and then i want to ask you this. i'm going to throw up some graphics so that people know just how significant ohio and pennsylvania are, dan lothian, especially as it relates to what happened back in 2008. here's ohio. it's 20 electoral votes and the president won this state back in '08 with 52% of the vote. and it was even better in pennsylvania. he won that state and its 21 electoral votes with 54% of the vote. and yet, that is not a lock, by any means, right? >> reporter: that's right. it's not, and these are two key battleground states, as you pointed out, ohio, in fact, back in 2004, ohio actually decided the presidential election. right now the president here in ohio is leading romney by about nine points and in pennsylvania, the other battleground state, leading by about six points. so, i mean, i think the president, everyone realized that in order for the president to win in 2012, he has to do

well in these two battleground states. what you're seeing now is the president sort of moving away from those high-price, ritzy fund-raisers and doing a few rallies as well, but getting down to the detailed politics and reaching out to those voters that both sides are going after. those blue-collar workers, those working americans. and that's what this bus trip is all about. >> dan lothian, chasing that beautiful black bus. it looks like it's somewhere out of "mission impossible." and southern in northern ohio, enjoy your assignment today, sir. we were just talking, dan and i, about that new term in our lexicon, bracketing. it's not new, it's not just that the republicans do it. democrats have done it as well. because hours before president obama even set foot in mommee, ohio, the dispatch was on. these guys, both louisiana governor bobby jindal and former minnesota governor tim pawlenty boarding a bus as well, and the

romney bus tailing the obama bus, headed to those same stops. and here's the message they wanted to get out, just as obama is pulling out, and here's the message. ready? that the president is bad for ohio. >> this president is bad for america and he's been bad for ohio. here in ohio, we're 40,000 fewer jobs than when he took office. the average income down $30,000. we've had enough of broken promises. if you want good-paging jobs in ohio, if you want a growing economy in america, we need to elect mitt romney. >> well, they say that this is to ensure that the romney message gets out as well as the president's message gets out. and so since they mentioned jobs, let's talk about it. last winter and into the spring, it kind of looked as though the jobs situation might actually bode well for the president as he starts campaigning toward the fall. but then all of a sudden a lot of new hiring started to slow down. tomorrow we've got some highly awaited monthly employment report numbers that are coming out.

alison kosik is in new york and she's watching this very closely. can you preview this for me? >> all right. so, the job market may -- and i stress, may -- be picking up a little bit based on a couple reports that are coming out today. one of them, weekly jobless claims show they fell by 14,000 last week, it's the biggest drop since april. that's good news. and adp says that private sector companies added 176,000 jobs last month. that came in much stronger than may's figure. what this adp reading is meant to be is kind of an appetizer to the main course of the official jobs report that comes out tomorrow, which takes into account both private and public sector employment. expectations for that, ashleigh, though, not as upbeat. analysts polled by "cnn money" think we're just going to see 80,000 positions. it's just not good enough. not enough to bring down the unemployment rate. but i guess if you want to look at it glass half full here, it could be better than may's report, which showed only 69,000 job editions. so here we go again, more baby

steps in this recovery. and you see in that chart how we had a strong start to the year, but as far as april and may, we're back in the double digit job growth. and the worry that this is a trend and not just a blip. ashleigh? >> so if he can't take any excitement out of those numbers, how about the mortgage rates? that was pretty good news today. >> good news definitely if you're looking for a house. another all-time low for rates on 30-year fixed rate mortgages, a record low now at 3.62%. but this is kind of a double-edged sword here. because you see mortgage rates fall when the economy isn't doing well. you know, freddie mac pointed out in this report that consumer spending is weak, the manufacturing sector is contracting, but on the flip side, hey, it's a great time for people to buy a house. but just because mortgage rates and home prices are low, ashleigh, it doesn't necessarily mean you can qualify for a loan. because banks are still very tight fisted with giving out money, even to people who seem pretty well qualified. so it's still tough out there, even with the rock bottom low rates. ashleigh? >> i guess you've got to be a whirling dervish to be able to

spin nice, low numbers. something go ahead for conservatives, because it means essentially the economy is in the dumper. alison kosik, thank you very much for that. they say they've got e-mails that could embarrass syrian president, bashar al assad, but also have e-mails who could embarrass their western opponents. who are they? and what's inside the nearly 2.5 million e-mails. it's wikileaks and it's coming at you soon.

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belly down into the atlantic, killing 228 people. that is the ugly conclusion of a report that was issued today, three years after the tragic crash of air france flight 447. the probe determined that the plane lost speed at 38,000 feet. is that in itself is not a huge problem, but it is one that demanded attention. instead, though, the copilot jerked the plane's nose upward, which triggered a catastrophic series of events that ended with a crash about four minutes later. and in the interim, the plane's captain, who had wandered away from the flight deck, even as the plane hit turbulence, that pilot returned to the cockpit and apparently failed to re-assert control. so those are the results. we're going to walk through this a little bit more in depth later on with cnn's richard quest and also the implications, what these findings bring and the politics involved as well. in the meantime, though, the

whistle-blower website wikileaks is at it again. this time spilling secrets about syria. and this spill is massive. it is a dump, a massive dump. saying that it's about 2 million e-mails that are coming our way. it either hack ordinary intercepted these e-mails from the syrian government, and wikileaks is claiming that some of them, se of the e-mails between syrian politicians and powers in the west. here's a written statement from wikileaks founder julian assange. he claims that "the material is embarrassing to syria, but it is also embarrassing to syria's external opponents." cnn's atika shubert is reading through the e-mails and reports now from london. >> well, wikileaks has done it again, this time with more than 2 million e-mails obtained from within the syrian government. wikileaks is calling them the syria files. some of them, wikileaks says, are even coming from the syrian presidential office.

now, these e-mails are being released in batches. and the first batch is only about 15 e-mails. and it details how an italian company was apparently selling advanced radio systems for use within police and military helicopters and vehicles used by the syrian regime. and at least one of those e-mails is as recent as february 2012. so possibly systems being used at the very height of the violence within syria. now, this was a major release for wikileaks, but its founder and editor, julian assange, was not there. that's because he was inside the embassy of ecuador, where he is seeking asylum. he, of course, is wanted for questioning by sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual harassment. julian assange is refusing to be extradited and is now seeking asylum in ecuador. but clearly wikileaks is eager to prove that it can continue to publish even as julian assange faces mounting legal problems.

ateesha shubert, cnn, london. >> atika, thank you for that. in the meantime, listen to this. the same person who found the wreckage of the "titanic," it just so happens, has also come upon that turkish jet that was downed by syrian forces. let's go live to ivan watson, who's live in istanbul, turkey, now. pretty amazing series of coincidences that led to this story. can you walk me through it? >> reporter: that's right. last month, june 22nd, we had syrian anti-air force defenses shooting down a turkish reconnaissance jet, an incident that has put these two middle eastern neighbors closer than ever to the possibility of conflict. now the turkish plane had operated in syrian waters and just yesterday they found the two dead turkish pilots.

their bodies have been recovered. in an unusual twist, the turkish government and armed forces turned to a u.s. research vessel, the "nautilus," which just happened to be docked in istanbul when this major deadly international incident took place. that is a ship led by marine explorer bob ballard, famous for finding the "titanic" deep underneath the atlantic ocean in the 1980s. and that ship had been brought into syrian waters to help find the wreckage of this plane and the two bodies and bring them up today. push irk government sources telling me that there are pushipush i turkish diplomats, navy officers on board the "nautilus," which had to change its itinerary. it was supposed to be broadcasting live from the black sea with national geographic on saturday, and now it is part of this rather high-security search and recovery operation. the members of the crew are not

talking right now, probably because of the extreme sensitivity of this mission. >> ivan watson live for us in istanbul, thanks very much for that. we have a difficult story to tell you about next. one that you really should hear, though. this is law and justice run amok. oregon police say this man allegedly yanked a 10-year-old boy inside a wendy's bathroom last weekend, tried to sexually assault the child, and then stab the child. it's bad enough, but there is a twist to this story you will not believe. we're going to get to the bottom of it, next. extra strength bayer advanced aspirin. in fact, in a recent survey, 95% of people who tried it agreed that it relieved their headache fast. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer.

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there's a story unfolding out of portland, oregon, that is a mind blower. first the basics of it.

a guy named adam lee brown in a portland jail right now. and thank goodness for that, because he's accused of pulling a 10-year-old boy into a wendy's bathroom this past weekend. portland police say that he allegedly tried to sexually assault that little boy and then stabbed him several times. all of this, police say, while the boy was screaming and his father was on the other side of a barricaded door, trying to break it down. the boy is right now recovering in a portland hospital. but here is the thing. brown is on parole for child molestation and the story takes an even uglier twist after this. in 1993, mr. brown was convicted of molesting three kids at a day care in roseberg, oregon. nine kids in the small logging town told police that brown had molested them. if you thought was the top of this story, the worst of it, brace yourself for what i'm about to tell you next. in 1993, adam lee brown was hiv

positive and he knew it. and so did the authorities. i want to bring in jean casarez. she's a correspondent with "in session." jean, this story is hard to believe that a man who was convicted and jailed, knowingly hiv positive, is out there and able to allegedly do this to another little boy. >> you know, as you look at the timeline, and these are the facts, okay? we're not supposing this. the only thing you can say is the system has let us down. in 1993, when he was originally arrested for raping three children, it was attempted murder was his charge, because of the hiv. >> his charge was attempted murder? did he plea bargain it down? >> yes, plea bargained it down in 1993 to sodomy, three counts of sodomy. so he's sentenced to 16 years, he served 11 years, got out in -- >> whoa, whoa, back it up.

why only 16 years? those sound like they could be life offenses in some states. >> it was pack in '92. laws were different. the laws with we have now, you know, that are really oriented for the victim now, were not in place. so it was part of the sentencing scheme. but it gets worse, okay? because in 2004 he's let out, on probation. he then has a relationship with a 17-year-old. that's a violation of probation right there. it was never designated a violation of probation. he never went back. >> and he should have dpgone ba for those additional five years. >> or maybe additional charges, right? >> and he also approached a little girl back in 2004. and who knows what else that wasn't even caught. and none of that, none of that went to the authorities and it appears as though the authorities knew about it. so then, in 2007, offender risk, 2. >> level 2? >> level 2. and then in 2009, level 4. 2010, level 8.

so then he switches counties in oregon to the portland area. he had an ankle monitor, originally, but once he moved to the portland area, no ankle monitor was required. so they couldn't even locate him. >> but what's the point? what is the point of even incrementing the offender level or the risk level if nothing happens? if he doesn't get put away? if he doesn't get extra monitors? why bother giving him a 2, 4, 6, 8? >> and it's such a subjective determination, right? but it should be based on the facts, based on what he has allegedly done. and it just goes on from there. but the fact is, he has out, roaming around, and now -- and this has to be rape, ashleigh. he has to have allegedly raped this young 10-year-old boy, because once again the charge is attempted murder. and that, once again, is because of is hiv. >> because of the hiv. there's still a lot of questions. stick around for a little bit? >> sure. >> appreciate that. he's hiv as jean just reported, a registered sex offender of

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before the break, i was talking about a case out of portland, oregon. adam lee brown is in a portland jail right now, accused of pulling a 10-year-old boy into a wendy's bathroom this past weekend. he's accused of attempting to sexually assault him and then stabbing him. he was convicted of molesting three children back in 1993. at the time, he was hiv positive. jean casarez mentioned earlier the original charges were attempted murder because he was hiv positive, bargain themed down and got a 15/16-year

sentence. joining us on the telephone now from salem, oregon is elizabeth craig, a spokesperson for the oregon department of corrections. miss craig, thank you for being with us. first, i want to ask you, how on earth did a prosecutor ever agree back in 1993 to a sentence of only 15, 16 years? >> sure. thank you for -- first aof , thank you for having me on today. i cannot speak to what the prosecutor originally was going to charge the inmate with. ultimately, he came to our custody on three counts of sodomy one and we held him accountable for those crimes. but i think what's important is to first look at our system of sentencing in oregon, which will help clear up some of the confusion that's out there. since 1989, we've used a system called sentencing guidelines, which basically is a sentencing grid, where it's a complex grid,

but basically, you look at it and if i'm convicted of felony "a," i get this certain amount of time. and it really takes away a lot of discretion in sentencing. and so he was sentenced under these guidelines to 180 months in our custody. what you have to understand is we have these guidelines in place that dictate how much time someone will serve in our custody. >> that makes sense, but i'm still kind of hung up on such a short, relatively short sentence. i mean, if if it's 15 to 16 years for someone who's originally looking at attempted murder, again, what on earth could a prosecutor do? i mean, they have the power. they have say. why would a prosecutor do this? why would a prosecutor say, all right, i'll go low on the sentence? >> first of all, tougher laws came about in 1995. but furthermore, and this is such a subjective determination. it is being reported that back then, since he had aids, the

prosecutor thought he was going to die. so she thought 16 years was good enough, that he'd pass on during that time because of having the aids virus. >> that's unbelievable. that this was just a, that this will be soon out of my hair soon enough anyway, so why not? >> yeah. >> well, that's an answer. elizabeth craig, this guy broke parole in july of last year, did it again in january of this year. he's been termed a high-risk sex offender. his wife -- his ex-wife has actually said the words, "he needs to die, he needed to die a long time ago. it's just the nightmare that never ends until he dices." this is the kind of thing where good law-abiding americans cannot understand how a system can go such awry, regardless of how laws were more lenient back then and are tougher now. this guy was a deadly threat back then and he could be a deadly threat now. >> you very well may be right. he was under the supervision of

corrections. i can't speak for them. i know at the time of his arrest, there was a warrant out for his arrest and it was very, very unfortunate, the circumstances under which he was most recently arrested. i know that he was held accountable for the violations that he committed during his supervision and ultimately we'll see what plays out in the courts this time. >> i just lost connection with you, i'm so sorry. i'm not sure if you're still talking. i can't hear you anymore, elizabeth craig. i'm so sorry for that, but thank you, not only to elizabeth craig from the oregon department of corrections, but also to jean casarez for the insight into this very disturbing case. nice to see you again, jean. nice to work with you. sorry under thesis circumstances. the only thing that makes having no electricity worse is having no electricity when it is

approaching triple digits outside. and that is the nasty reality right now for half a million americans across several states. up next, what one state in particular is doing to help ease the miserable conditions. and first, in the wake of celebrating our independence, it is a good time to remember the sacrifices that many of our brave soldiers make while fighting for our freedom. in this week's "human factor," dr. sanjay gupta brings us the story of one soldier who has overcome tremendous odds to become an inspiration to so many people. >> when did you know you wanted to be in the army, to be a military person? >> well, my dad had fought in vietnam. my older brother was a '94 west point graduate, i'm a '97 west point graduate, and my younger brother is currently serving in the army. >> but it wasn't until 2005 when his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb when he realized how dangerous war could be. three weeks after the incident,

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crisis at the daiichi nuclear plant in fukushima. the report says that the disaster that unfolded after last year's earthquake and tsunami, quote, should have and could have been foreseen and prevented. it has now been six days since the deadly storm swept through several states and devastated thousands of families, american families. in west virginia, people are struggling to find food in horrible heat conditions and many of them hope each minute that their power will please be restored. thankfully, though, today, as of today, mass feedings are underway. 25,000 meals each day are being handed out to victims of this storm. and it's all thanks to the red cross and some federal aid as well. red cross spokesperson becky howard tells us what is being done to help these people. >> we've been feeding thousands of meals since this has happened and we've ramped up our capacity

several days ago and the plan is to work with our partners to serve thousands of more meals over the next few days. you know, these people are hot, they're tired, and we're here to meet their need with the food, the water, and the snacks. we will get through this. west virginians are resilient and we pull together as a community and we support each other. we have a phenomenal group of volunteers and staff supporting the red cross. we've been working long hours in this heat and everyone still continues to work hard, serving their communities. >> and if you want to know how you can help out, help them to work hard and get that food out, you can go to cnn.com/impact. a 14-year-old girl from maine takes on a major magazine over how the magazine portrays young women on their pages. how do you think this battle turned out? here's a hint. she won. up next, "seventeen" magazine's response to the eighth grader

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"seventeen" magazine promises to get real about beauty after an outcry in may over its use of air brushed images of young women. the editor in chief writes in the august issue that "sevent n

"seventeen" will never change girl's body or face shapes, never have, never will. the move comes after a teenager from maine named julia bloom, she's holding the box, she organized an online petition, asking for one unaltered photo spread per month. more than 40,000 people signed that petition and then bloom decided to take the signatures right to the source, to "sev "seventeen's" office. >> a bunch of my friends and i read "seventeen" magazine, and we can recognize that they're photo shopped, but at the same time, you know, that's what's considered beautiful. and we don't realize it sometimes when we're just looking at the magazine and having fun and it can lower your self-esteem. >> well, joining me now is former model, jenna souers, who's also an editor at

jezebel.com. jenna, thank you for doing this. this sounds like on its surface to be a very, very big win for this young lady, but when you look a little bit deeper into it, is it such a win? is anything really changing? >> well, i mean, if you read the letter the editor wrote in the new issue, it's really more than anything a commitment to go back to business as usual, in fact. i mean, "seventeen" essentially says it's never had any issues with the way that it photoshops its photographic subjects and celebrities and models, but that just to be on the safe side, it will continue not altering the bodies of the people it photographs. and i don't know. i it seems like 84,000 people who signed that petition seem to be of the opinion that there were some issues with the ways that "seventeen" has photoshopped its images in the past. so this response doesn't really address that criticism.

>> so what we're showing on our screen right now is the before shot and the after shot. they say they're going to be more transparent and show after shots online in their tumbler account and the only thing they photoshop is like the stray hair on the right, and they there's a bra strap showing, the color of the curtain goes from white beforehand to blue afterwards. that's par for the course. just about everybody cleans up pictures with, you know, messy flyaways and colors that they don't find palatable. >> absolutely. >> but photoshopping -- there is still an element of photoshopping that makes people more beautiful than their photos really would suggest otherwise. "seventeen" is not going to change all of that, are they? >> well, no. and airbrushing the likes of flyaway hairs and stray objects that might have been in the background and things like that,

that kind of photo editing has been around for a very long time. >> and that's fair. i'm more talking about if you have uneven skin tone or blemishes, and in some cases, there have been accusations that black models have been made to look less black. those are the kind of things that people are very worried about. >> absolutely. the advent of these digital post-production tools, including photoshop has just made it incredibly easy to alter all kinds of things about an image, including body shape, size, skin color, skin tone, to erase wrinkles. it's -- and sometimes the effects are downright creepy. but you know, more commonly, we just, we've gotten used to the idea in the past ten years that every single woman seen on a magazine, particularly on women's magazines, is going to be an altered, hyper-real, impossible, idealized version of how that person actually looks.

and i think for young girls, that's not a healthy visual culture to be growing up in. >> right. i want to just reiterate that the editor of "seventeen" did say that everybody on staff signed this body peace treaty and they do say that they would never alter the shape, again, or the size of the models. but makes for a good conversation. jenna sauers, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. south korea angering animal experts worldwide, making a big announcement about whaling. and shark nearly as big as a whale, look at that thing. this thing was so big, it weighed more than the scale could actually handle, so they had to guess beyond the maximum of the scale. caught off the coast of california, too. shark, california, back after this. in fact, in a recent survey, 95% of people who tried it agreed

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for the first time in 25 years, south korea plans to resume hunting whales. today's announcement brought immediate criticism from environmental groups and neighboring countries, including australia and new zealand. a global moratorium went into effect against whaling back in 1986, but south korea says the whale population there has recovered and that it's disrupting fishing along that country's coast. japan, for its part, already

ignores the moratorium, but says that it is doing so to hunt whales for scientific research. closer to home, fishermen off marina del ray, california, caught this 800-pound shark. too big to even get into the boat, so they dragged it back to the dock. they couldn't weigh it on the scales because the scales only go to 750 pounds. so they had to just extrapolate. they got to 800 pounds. the locals say they have not seen a mako like this, a shark like this, in several years. that's a good thing. that you don't see that very often. a congressman is up for re-election. i don't know if you've heard about this, but he's in some hot water for something he said. he called into question if his opponent is, quote, a true hero. all right. joe walsh is running in illinois. that opponent is tammy duckworth, an army vet who lost her legs while serving in iraq. cnn's kate balduan has the story.

>> reporter: here's the town hall video that's created an uproar around republican congressman joe walsh. >> that's what's so noble about our heroes. >> reporter: walsh suggesting over the weekend that his democratic challenger talks too much about her military service. >> now, i'm running against a woman who -- i mean, my god, that's all she talks about. our true heroes, the men and women who served us, it's the last thing in the world they talk about. >> the woman walsh is attacking, tammy duckworth, a veteran who lost both legs in a 2004 helicopter accident while serving in iraq. just yesterday, walsh released a statement clarifying he does think duckworth is a hero, but he doesn't quite apologize. adding, "unlike most veterans i have had the honor to meet since my election to congress, who rarely if ever talk about their service or the combat they've seen, that is darn near all of what tammy duckworth talks about."

now duckworth is more than happy to fight back. >> so he's just trying to shift the focus away from the fact that he's done nothing in his two years in congress, other than be an extremist loud mouth for the tea party. >> reporter: this isn't duckworth's first run for congress, despite from support from then senator obama and high-profile democrats john kerry, duckworth lost a house run in 2006. >> that was kate balduan reporting for us. yesterday joe walsh backed down from his first statement, calling tammy duckworth a true hero. you heard kate mention that, that he is not backing down from all of what he said about her. you can hear him explain for himself when i speak with him in the next hour. a judge today says george zimmerman can be released from jail. but he is attaching a megaprice tag to it. can his defense attorney pony up the catch to get him out? plus, the judge's strict new

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he's accused of second-degree murder, but george zimmerman has already proven to be a court manipulator. those are the words of a judge, written in an order today. this while setting a $1 million bond for the man charged with killing trayvon martin.

remember, originally the bond that he got was just $150,000. i know it's a lot of money, but as bond goes, that ain't bad. then it turned out zimmerman and his wife failed to close more than $150,000 in public donations, in bank accounts. and that prompted the judge to say, "it appears to this court that the defendant is manipulating the system to his own benefit." defense attorney joey jackson is on the case. that's a big old slap. >> oh, yes, it is. >> 150 grand to a million? >> absolutely. >> has his flight risk gone up at all? >> well, here's the problem. there's a lot that's gone up, and here's why, ashleigh. this is good and pad news for the defense. why? because it's good news that he gets bail at all, right? he has the opportunity to post that bail, and when he does post it, and we expect he will, he'll be released from jail. the bad news is, look at the language you just cited to, talking about manipulation. if you further read the decision, it talks about how he flouted the decision, how he was

not this confused, young adult that this defense attorney pointed him out to be. he was a person who knew very well what he was doing. why is that relevant? because there's something called a stand your ground hearing, an immunity hearing at some point which he's going to say, i acted in self-defense, your honor. and that judge has to assess his credibility. >> and just the judge. it's a bench trial. you're not trying to make a song and dance for a jury. you've got a smart guy up there who knows the tricks of the trade. >> so if you have a judge saying, look, i'm concerned because you misled the court, it would have been an easy thing to do to say, look, i don't know if this is my money, you know. we raised this money, it's for my defense. i don't know if i can use it your honor, but it's there. i don't consider it an asset, and let a judge decide. the same judge who has said that you're a manipulator and you are flouting the system has to assess your credibility when you're asking for immunity with regard to this case being prosecuted. that's why it's really problematic for him here. >> good because you can get out if you've got the money, but bad because of good luck with that

hearing. and it's the most critical one. >> which raises the question of whether or not his attorney, from a strategic perspective, even moves forward to that, right? we don't know yet. of course, if he wins that immunity hearing, it's a grand slam. why, there's no trial. but at the same time, if all the evidence you have when it goes to that point is your word that i acted in self-defense, do you really think this judge, having slammed him in this decision, and rightfully so, i might add, as a result of the mission representations, do you really think that judge is going to say, oh, is that what happened? okay, no problem. >> so there is a lot more than just the credibility issue, though. as we've started to see in discovery, there are forensics that match accounts of what he said, phone calls, videos, things that are starting to add up. and the judge gets all of that in the prelim? >> oh, yes, the judge gets that. but i think at this point the judge will say, because of all the things, the whole forensics and this and that, a judge might say, we'll let a jury decide as to whether you acted in self-defense or you didn't act in self-defense.

i'm not going to make that decision. >> whereas before he might have said, i think you're telling the truth, i think i can judge this. >> and particularly it was his opportunity. just say, there's money out there. but instead of that, you mislead the court, and now you get this $1 million and all these conditions attached. >> by the way, can you tell me about these conditions? >> i'd love to. >> i knew you'd know them. are they the same as the $150,000 bail conditions? >> no, they're different. and they differ in critical respects. just briefly, the judge was concerned also about the passport. look, he gives the judge a pszpops passport that's expired knowing he has a passport that's valid in a safety box. the judge says, you better not go even near a passport or near an airport. >> serious? >> absolutely. i want you to report to pre-trial within two days. every two day as opposed to every three days. i want you in the house at 6:00 as opposed to 7:00. so the judge was really concerned. and in the decision, ashleigh, the judge expressed that concern, if you got this $130,000 you didn't tell me anything about, you have this passport you didn'